surprise with myself having worked with indigenous communities of the genocide cases in another region robbie knol there were many. it's not just the she'll but they believe that it was the best case to move forward with the shield because they had the most evidence in that case i was fortunate enough to meet with one of the community members that i worked with very closely with the president of the witnesses association and while they were heartbroken the one thing they're saying is that you cannot take away that conviction this is the first time any head of state in any country has been convicted for crimes of genocide in his own country one of the things that we're also seeing is that the current president has a very strong connection to rios montt president. was a field commander in the shield during that time one of the things that happened after the verdict went down was that activists were calling for not only but others that were implicated during that time of the genocide to be called to justice so there was very likely that the president himself the current president of guatemala could h